Lou Williams Quotes

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at UCLA. They helped me improve on and off the court.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

I wanted to go to college and play football.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

I thought I was doing very well at Florida. Then I get suspended. Then my head coach tells me to transfer.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.

I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.

If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.